In-depth · AI and justice
Guilt and the Algorithm
Predictive justice, risk scores and the presumption of innocence
"The score can be calculated. Guilt must be judged. They are not, and never will be, the same thing."
Guilt is judged - a score is computed
From the book «Beyond Turing - The Incalculable Remainder»
Inside the article
The three knots
The risk score
A statement about classes, not persons
Statistics seeks the similar; justice guards the unique. The three structural limits of the score: statistical, semantic, decisional.
Judgment and the AI Act
The algorithm informs, it does not replace
The involuntary conditioning of human judgment and the architecture that safeguards it: from adversarial proceedings to Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.
Digital prejudice
The memory that does not forget
The accusation indexed forever, the silent acquittal: permanent reputational conviction and the right to be forgotten.
